VLOGMAS DAY 1: Putting Up My Christmas Tree, Zane's Birthday, and More!!

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Say happy vlogmas day one. Happy vlogmas day one! Happy vlogmas day one. Happy vlogmas day one. Happy vlogmas day one. I can't believe it's already December. I can't believe I'm already here filming this vlog. It is currently December 1st. I know everyone does vlogmas a little different.

I feel like now with TikTok it's easy to post a vlog and edit, like film a vlog, edit it, and post it the same day. Here on my channel we do vlogmas where I film every single day. So today's December 1st, and then I'm going to upload this vlog on December 2nd. And I know most of you guys are like, girl, we know we've been here for years. Because I get it. Like, it doesn't make sense. Like, it makes more sense for day one to be day one. December 1st. I get it.

But this is how the lifestyle girlies have always done it. Getting late starts the day because I had a doctor appointment and I thought I was only going to be doing one test that would take 30 minutes and like get some blood work done, which oh my god, they literally missed my vein like four times. So they had to do both arms. That's besides the fact. Had to get some blood work done and then I thought I wasn't doing another breath test. Long story short, I got there at 9 and I did this like three hour like breath test I can I'll get into all my health stuff in another vlog and I even fell asleep because it was taking So long and yeah now it's like 1 p.m. Putting that all goes smooth. We get good results everything

We get answers, etc I can get into all my health stuff in another vlog because I don't even want to talk about it right now But I had to do it all fasted. So I came home and I was like I need food So yeah, we're gonna like start to the vlog But that's okay because I actually have a vlog and I've never done this in the history of vlogmas ever before But I actually have a vlog from the other day that I've yet to upload and normally I would probably just like scratch Uploading that vlog but this one was a fun one because I actually started putting up the Christmas tree early

So it kind of worked out because vlogmas day one you're still getting me putting up the Christmas trees So like it all works out. So I'm gonna go finish getting ready and I'm gonna play the vlog from the other day and then we'll come back to me today. So happy vlogging day one! Good morning everyone! Welcome to another vlog, or another day. Okay. What is happening with my hair? We've got to fix that. I picked up a coffee. It's hitting so much right now. I also went a little crazy I woke up today and decided I'm gonna put my damn Christmas tree up because I I can't wait till December Okay, first of all, I want to feel in the holiday spirit. I need to feel it

I want to feel the magic longer than four weeks You know every year I feel like the holidays fly by faster and faster than ever so I was like you know what we? We're gonna put the tree up today, and I can't multitask for anything because I forgot what I was like Why is this often I realize oh, I'm telling you what I ordered all right We got my normal iced vanilla latte with sugar-free vanilla It's so funny most the time

I'm sugar-free, but then sometimes I'm like is that like is regular sugar just better for your body than artificial I don't know almond milk and then today I went kind of crazy and did coconut cloud cream on top and it's it's divine I have to say oh my god. This is hitting okay, so my day completely freed up Which is why I was like well, maybe I'll just put my tree up because wow can I talk okay? My day got completely cancelled today Which is why I have the urge to put you know my tree up and decorate for Christmas

But I was supposed to get an MRI and last night at like midnight because I'm dumb and didn't I'm not dumb But I didn't think about the fact that I have extensions in you know if you've got an MRI done before you know that you're not Allowed to have any metal on you and you like at all So yeah, I didn't really think that one through didn't think that through at all rescheduled that obviously and that was genuinely gonna Take my entire day, so now I'm I have the day free. I do have zane's birthday dinner tonight So but that's not till like seven something so I have to get ready for that anyway

So I think i'm just gonna start getting ready now. Okay, let's go home get ready We got shit to do it's time Insert mariah carey. Okay, cool. Hi pretty girl. Hi pretty girl

Hi

You already ate. I don't know what else you want. All right, let's get this you guys I Tried vlogging the other day. This is like my first real vlog back from Japan and I tried vlogging the other day I forgot how much not even the jet lag cuz I feel like I beat the jet lag I landed and then the next day we started a full week of recording Basically and pretty basic every single day or we were recording so then when we were finally done with that He went back home and it's crazy the next time we see him. He's gonna have a kid

He's gonna have a baby. He's literally gonna have a son. Mariah will have birthed a boy like what? Crazy, he's so awesome and will literally fly back like lately It's been more than once a month just so we can film and they moved the schedule so I could even go to Japan So I'm very grateful all that to say we really wanted him to not stress having you know a kid So you're like look ideally we don't bulk all of these episodes that much but hi you're becoming a dad So let's do that and then we're gonna record an episode just me Zane and remi so that we can just not worry about having to film because paternity Is also important obviously not as important as maternity leave but paternity leave is also really nice

So I just posted a tokyo dump because I kind of forgot I kind of forgot about it And I was like, let me let me post let me post let me you know do all the things i'm really excited because tomorrow We are having the mel Robbins on the podcast I'll vlog a little behind the scenes obviously in this vlog and you'll probably see it freaking out really excited You guys know I am a hoe for self-help all of that stuff all of the good like inner working Self-journey stuff. I'm really excited and I've been prepping yesterday. I did some research and some outlines

Today, I'm gonna go over a few more things for it, but I feel really prepped like I love her I know her I know her vibe and everything and I'm just so honored she's coming on So we're doing that tomorrow tonight. Like I said is Zane's birthday dinner So I'm gonna go to that but that is later tonight, but instead of waiting to get glam I'm like, let me make use of wearing makeup. I don't know if you guys ever felt this way. I'm always like look if I'm gonna wear makeup I want to like enjoy I hate getting ready for like a dinner coming back home two hours later and being like wow That was a waste which like obviously it wasn't but it just I feel better when I'm like, okay

I'm getting things done and it's so much easier for me to Cancel on a meeting or dinner or whatever or just like a hang if I'm not like ready which obviously this is something I would get ready for and go to because obviously it loves aim, but it's just easier You know when your friends are like, I don't know Should we just stay in and you're already in your PJs with no makeup like yeah, hi My boat is definitely stay in so anyway, let's uh, let's get ready

Okay, wait. Interrupting the time lapse, my mom just sent me a voice memo. I'm going to make sure it's fine with her if I share this, but I thought this was so special. If you didn't see, she came on Pretty Basic, which you should go watch. It's literally best episode of the year. Sorry, Mel Robbins.

The one with my mom is still going to be number one in my heart.

Hey, honey. So, deep thought alert. So I've just been reading more comments on our video and I'm feeling like overwhelmed again and like verge of tears. So I just wanted to tell you such a big thank you again

for like having the idea and making it all happen and stuff. Cause I was thinking like, it's been like years and years I had a desire just to really like tell more of my life story mostly to you and Ashley like that was my main only thought really for years like I'm gonna cry right now but it just means so much to me like how all this happened and that my desire just to share with you and Ashley it

happened but and and even more. So anyway, I can't talk, I'm starting to cry. I just wanna say thank you and I love you.

Okay, bye.

My heart.

I'm sorry if you haven't watched the episode yet and that didn't get you to go watch it. No, seriously, go watch it. And let me know that the vlog sent you. That was really special, so I'm glad everyone's loving it. I'll have the link in the description for y'all All right

We are finally ready and I have to say I feel like my bangs are finally a non awkward length because I've been growing them Out for a little bit. You're at a good length, which is good. There's the makeup on my eyes I use wait what colors this I use this NARS palette, which I haven't used in a while. I used the colors Magnetism and high stakes these two right here and then for lips we used Kosis and

Number 100. I feel like it's like the perfect my lips lip liner and then just lineage lip mask on top So that's a lip duo. Yeah

All right

She got mad cuz the gardeners were here and I kept telling her to not bark at them I know you're just doing your job Just doing your job Okay I have Ashley helping me. I did ask her if she wanted me to wait for her to do this, but she's only free on Friday. I figured I could save ornaments

with her and then Greer should be home from work soon. So I know she'll want to help because we're both in the Christmas spirit. I normally just move this chair over here, but I have this other chair. I feel like I should do that first. Ugh, I feel like I should do that first. This, I'm gonna put over here for now. Same with this.

Ooh, I don't wanna scratch the floor.

All right, good for now. Now, I still love the faux rug faux fur rug under the tree literally one of my favorite things I've ever bought in my life and I love it because the girls like will refuse to have an accident on it I don't know what it is about the material but they like they just don't and especially Chloe like Chloe will literally go outside look you dead in the eye pretend to pee

come inside and then pee in the hallway or in my closet It's a shit suit. I don't it's she it's like I just Any like she's 11. It's never gonna change like I could like we've yeah So that's why I don't have a huge rug in the actual living room Like I would love one, but it's just it gets too expensive and it's too much work to take it and clean it and all that stuff

So yeah, but I've been pleasantly surprised with this one. I'll have her linked Obviously I got from Amazon and I'm very happy. I might get another one. Yeah, love it Oh my light So many new things, okay Y'all are curious

I feel like this could just be cute over here

I don't know. I don't hate that. I do think it'd probably look better in that corner, but I don't hate that

I don't hate it. And also no one really walks this way that much

Another amazing fake plant that I bought this one I believe is west elm. I don't know where to put it though. It's so funny, I wanted a real tree my whole life because I only grew up with fake trees and that lasted exactly one year. It was so much more work. So much more work. Oh my gosh. So I feel bad for my kids because I'm gonna be like, no sorry, we're doing a fake one. And then my anxiety, I was just worried about it catching on fire and I know like that's a thing and then I was just like, ah this is too much work and I'm like, you know what, I love a pre-lit fake tree and I don't think there's anything wrong with that It's just as magical and then you can have it up as long as you want because it doesn't die The real ones do smell better though

This thing the skirt This thing okay. This is always a little hard to do like in general with Ashley's help So I'm like curious if I can actually get it done by myself If not, we're gonna wait for her after career, but you are supposed to do that. I got this. Yeah, I got this They just have to be lined up like so perfectly

Wait guys, why was that easier one person than two that's funny I lied I think this is gonna be the hardest oh we're golden there we go okay okay oh god

I want to put the fire on but I'm gonna be dripping bullets

You guys have hit a slight wall I can can do it. I can do it. I can do it. It's so weird It feels like vlogmas is just coming early. I've gotten so many requests not even a question. Oh my god Yeah, what do I did that influence with it? I've gotten so many comments The people are wondering am I gonna be doing vlogmas this year as you know, I did flop miss last year It was the first year. I Embarrassingly made a huge gripe about it being like guys. This is my first year I'm not gonna do vlogmas simply taking off the pressure to post every single day. I believe I posted 24 out of 25 days which is wild wild so I'm gonna do the same thing this year

I don't know. I don't know what mental energy I will be in in a few weeks But I thoroughly love and enjoy vlogging every single day in December or till Christmas and I I intend to do Whatever I want slash what I did last year. So yes, I'm gonna do it Obviously if I you know get sick or if there's a day that I just mentally like don't want to do I don't want to push myself especially because I have a lot more going on this year than past years I feel like in the past the one thing I did in December was vlogmas

So it was easy to devote all of my time energy and effort to that We're now getting older is weird because I have more responsibilities and I have other things going on So it's weird growing up so weird like I miss back in the apartment. I'm like I miss I love those vlogs They're still up for you to see and all past vlogmas is but yeah, I'm excited for this one I think it'll be really fun having Greer here last year. I was definitely not in the best mental space And I was feeling actually I lied last year's vlogmas was a really good Distraction because right after that I definitely felt a little more depression. So it was a good distraction, but all that to say What am I talking about feelings? I do plan on doing it this year. I'm very excited

Yeah, we're starting early because I need some holiday joy in my life. Oh

I

Might need career for this one. She should be home soon Part of me wanted to surprise her the other part of me knows she'd probably want to help We got it. We got it. Oh my God, I'm so out of shape. The gloves are always, I always forget about these gloves. They really do help a lot. Yay! Okay. The one thing, well not one thing,

but one of the things that really sucks about a fake tree is that you have to fluff it all the time. And if you don't, it looks so bad. 🎵 All right, I'm sweating not only for my outfit from the fire and doing all of this So I still have two more pieces to get up there and I was like we got to wait for for help But these are very fluffed and I'm very happy. I'm very excited update. I took an hour nap. We changed for Zane's I'm getting picked up in like 15 minutes Greer's home and we are putting the last

Yeah, I can go up are you sure yeah Wow See this is what's nice about not having separate lights I was fluffing the bottom two for the longest time though. Like this is the the most- I'm usually so impatient I just want to put the ornaments on. How long did we have this one? Oh god I think like five years now? Wow. I know. So I feel like it's already made its money's worth. Oh my god. So we're going to do the honors of your first year living here.

AHHHHH!

YAY!

A Christmas miracle!

Miracle! Yeah Christmas miracle

Miracle miracle. Thank you

Wow, that is a good tree

I know I know I know I know I know I haven't been like super in but like I want to be so now we're like We're going in we're going in with all the Christmas things I literally like am I so excited for vlogmas it seems like it. Do I just make a YouTube for vlogmas? No, let's first watch we day one and then just like fuck it and see Cuz that would be so funny

Get that b-roll I

Promise myself this I Show me, show me, show me. We got the Hey Bookey. We have the 33 not 34. You mean 21.

Because I've been telling everybody

this season, I've been asking for ages,

I've been saying 33. I'm thinking that I'm 33,

but I've been 32 the whole time.

If you feel that, I just

saved myself a little bit. But I feel,

you know, that made me feel like a baby, I'm not gonna lie like knowing that I'm 32 You are so vlogging. Zane, Zane, Zane. Aww. Aww. You're so cute. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I just want you to know who I am. It's my birthday. I can sing bad if I want. It's my birthday. I can sing bad if I want.

You just don't want you to know who I am. I start crying. You just don't know who I am. I start crying. You just don't know who I am! I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry! Da da da da! Da da da da!

You just don't know who I am!

Hey!

What am I doing?

This is why I don't vlog.

I'll edit it.

What a great drama for this. This is such a good camera. Take your time, girl!

Sing it!

Just me and my sugar mommy and daddy.

We're gonna pay for me to go to private school. Y'all go like, it's easy when you do it.

Good morning, we're slightly hungover. Just a little bit. We're in the podcast studio.

Hi babe!

Let them.

Let them I should get everyone saying that say let them let them let them eat snacks

Branding okay, Jack's next vibrancy

Hey guys, what's up? I'm Alicia Marie and I'm ready person and we are very excited today. I'm so excited! Hey guys, what's up? I'm Alisha Marie. And I'm Remi Parsons. And we are very excited. Today on Pretty Basic, we have a true global phenomenon joining us.

Please welcome the Mel Robbins.

Wow! Congratulations! Just first off, congratulations.

I host a show that is helping people create a better life. I am not in the news cycle. I do not get that airstream lift from having a sound bite. And so the fact that a show like that in Boston, which is not a media town, and I record the ones that it's just me alone because half of them are me alone above my garage in Vermont.

That a show like that can break through at a time like this and not only be making a difference with people's lives around the world, but it's actually making people's lives better.

All right, we're back. We're ready. Welcome back to Vlogmas day one in the past I probably would have just like scratched the whole vlog, but it was a really fun vlog So and I put up the tree and as you can see, it's finally done as you saw this morning We put our ornaments up. We put the little So today I really would love to put up the garland on the staircase That's always like such a bitch. I hate doing it every year because it's so much work But like it looks it really makes the house look so finished. So I do want to do that today

I might need to get careers help for that and then I also need to decorate the studio because tomorrow we're recording basically unfiltered So I have some Christmas decor that I thought would be really cute to decorate it for tomorrow Which I can also do tomorrow, but I figured that'd be fun. We had this from last year I'm trying to remember what else we have we went all out last year for the basically set. Oh my god glitter galore There's gonna be glitter on this floor for years. Oh my god my hand. I'm either gonna do honestly I'll probably just do this tomorrow, or maybe we can start today. Is this golf balls? Oh my god Do they not look like golf balls I was like he's definitely picked this one he didn't they're not golf balls But they they they really look like it Rosie potty time

Let's go decorate. All right This is my absolute least favorite part because it takes a lot of work to do this But it's also one of my favorite parts because it really doesn't make such a big difference So I'm gonna go get zip ties. That's what we do I'm gathered here to help me because I desperately need help. So you put it up the stairs Yeah, I'm gonna like let it like droop. Okay, I'll have you hold like here and then I'll zip tie it

So every day you go upstairs just don't I'll get a brown sharpener Like that, yes. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

It's okay, it's okay. I'm so sorry. But it did, it did, I knew it. No, it didn't. It did.

It didn't.

You'll watch it back, you'll see that it didn't really. So

Update she looks amazing. I vacuumed because that white flaw gets

Everywhere, but she's actually she looks great. The next thing I really wanted to do was put the

You know don't think I can do this without a ladder though. Damn it. Oh my god you guys I am so sorry I well I kind of like I got hyper focused because We were like sitting and telling Greer that we're really excited that she's gonna like do vlogmas and then I was like Well, obviously instead of doing my own work I need to sit and make her a whole vlogmas intro and then I ended up editing her whole day one vlog Because she doesn't really know how to edit

Really?

So I was like, oh, I'll just like do your first one and like show you how to do actually I was even planning on doing the whole thing I was just like, oh, I'll bring it on to a project I'll skim it and like I want you to see that I'm sure it's all good footage fast forward I fully edited the whole thing and I was like

Alicia

I like blinked and now it's 1030 at night And I thought we vlogged showing me making that intro for her, but we vlogged that on her channel So obviously I'm gonna have the link to her video in the description box Please go send her love and you can see us making her intro and see her vlog and all that stuff But yeah, it was really fun. And then I was like I need to do my own vlog So I was getting my vlog and then I was going to the end and I realized oh my gosh

I haven't vlogged for the past couple of hours so apologies for that and it's crazy because like I was saying earlier in this video I Wasn't planning on day one not being like a traditional day one where it like starts from the very beginning that I wake up and Then goes to the very like second. I'm going to bed And it's weird because this is exactly what I want to start giving myself grace with and I know y'all are gonna be like don't worry we love it like I know I know and if there's one hater it's like it's okay

but I'm proud of myself for someone who used to be a very bad perfectionist allowing room for gray and allowing room for like you know not overthinking it just putting out content for you guys because I really do love this and I don't want to feel Like oh, well if I'm not gonna complete every single day of vlogging in December then I might as well not do vlogmas like I'm really trying to get out of that all-or-nothing Mindset that's something that I've always struggled with last year was was the first year for Vogmas in like 10 years, guys, that I let myself miss a day. And just taking that pressure off helped a lot.

So this Vogmas, I truly, like I don't know what all I'm gonna be able to give, mostly because I mentioned earlier, I was at the doctor's this morning. I cannot explain how bad my fatigue has been and how dependent on like stimulants I've been or like energy drinks and just this is the first year

I don't know if I can physically keep up with vlogmas Just because it is a lot of like editing and late nights and all that stuff. Obviously, I'm gonna put myself first and But I still want to do it because I love this I love it. It's fun I want to share my life with you guys. So so I don't know I guess I'm just excited to evolve and see ways to change it up this year a little bit. For instance, like today where normally I would have just deleted that entire vlog.

Now I'm rambling, but all of it to say it makes me happy to see growth and how much I've evolved and not allowing pressure and it just feels fun. Like normally years ago, I would have been like, oh my god, alicia a few years ago Would it be cringing at how like half-ass this vlog felt? But in reality like it's not half-assed and it's just this time and season in my life obviously health Like health stuff aside. It's just a different season and i'm gonna do like the bandwidth that I have and I feel like this is A good reminder for everyone like no matter what season you're in

Obviously like it sounds superficial talking about like a vlogmas But like whatever you need to insert there for vlogmas whether it's like hanging out with friends Saying yes to too many social things or like whatever like or like just obligations you have with your family Like whatever it is really just taking time to accept whatever season you're in right now Especially during the holidays be easy on yourself And just if you need to like have boundaries or say no or do whatever, like, that's okay.

I'm saying that out loud for myself as well, but I do think it is such a good reminder. And then obviously adding health stuff in there, obviously we have to take care of ourselves, like mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally. And that is most important of everything.

So, that being said, I'm gonna go to bed. No, I'm gonna edit this a little bit. It'll take two seconds, then shower and go to bed because then we can wake up tomorrow

and do vlog at day two.

Anyway, love you guys. Anyway, love you guys.

Mwah.